Real Life and Other Fictions was named a best book of the year

The Washington Post

Cassie Klein, a 50-something creative-writing teacher, finds herself running away from life as she knows it: empty nest, difficult marriage, cheating husband. But what is she running to? Coll’s seventh novel is all about the wild, unpredictable sprint to something else.

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A realistic portrait of romance on the other side of 50

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PEOPLE’s Best Books of September 2025: Powerful Memoirs from Priscilla Presley and Elizabeth Gilbert, Haunting New Fiction and More

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Susan Coll — Bookish People - with Angie Kim

In Bookish People, a perfect storm of comedic proportions erupts in a DC bookstore over the course of one soggy summer week--narrated by two very different women and punctuated by political turmoil, a celestial event, and a perpetually broken vacuum cleaner.